Dancing to the World Bank's tune

The World Bank, which is the largest lender of aid to the Third World, is casting its shadow on decisions made by the Indian Union ministry of …

Not a matter of religion

Who cares for India today

Novel approach to primary education catches on

New instruction methods have resulted in efficient primary schools in rural Andhra Pradesh, posing a challenge to the approaches adopted by the …

Green blah

Is the desire for a cleaner environment a mere faddish concern? Some Dutch wisdom goes sour during a recent greenhouse debate

Educating the underprivileged

A review of our educational and training policy is desperately needed to educate tribals, the backward classes and the poor

Learning made easy

The Education Guarantee Scheme of the Madhya Pradesh government is a new approach to encouraging rural children to attend school. And the scheme …

Miseducation in Bastar

An ethnobotanist flags the problem with education in tribal areas

Elementary failure

Since the Right To Education Act came into force on April 1, 2010, India has been witnessing an experiment that involves parents in enforcing a …

दक्षिण एशियाई देशों में केवल 13 फीसदी स्कूली बच्चों के घर पर है इंटरनेट की सुविधा: यूएन

रिपोर्ट के अनुसार कम आय वाले देशों के 20 से कम आयु वर्ग के अधिकतर बच्चों में से एक के पास घर पर इंटरनेट ...

ऑनलाइन शिक्षा: बिना प्रयोगशाला के विज्ञान की पढ़ाई संभव है?

कोरोना काल में ऑनलाइन शिक्षा को बढ़ावा देने की बात कही जा रही है, लेकिन क्या यह विज्ञान के छात्रों के लिए बेहतर विकल्प ...

COVID-19: Kenya ensures kids keep learning amid lockdown

A state body under the education ministry has intensified delivery of school programmes through radio and television broadcasts

बैगा आदिवासियों के दिल्ली वाले बाबा नहीं रहे !

प्रभुदत्त खेड़ा बैगा आदिवासियों के बीच शिक्षा बांटते रहे हालांकि वे हमेशा यही कहते थे कि बैगाओं को पर्यावरण और वनस्पतियों का ज्ञान किसी ...

IIT-Madras to increase intake in data science course

The programme was introduced in 2017 as part of an exercise to provide undergraduate students an opportunity to do courses across disciplines 

Electing India’s health transformation

The new government must convene a meeting of central and state health ministers annually, to build consensus across the political spectrum and …

Fertility in 91 countries insufficient to maintain population: study

The baby bust in 91 countries, including Singapore, Spain, Portugal and South Korea is happening simultaneous to a baby boom in 104 countries, …

C V Raman Fellowships bring African and Indian researchers closer

Between 2010 and 2018, close to 500 African researchers availed the C V Raman International Fellowship to improve the quality of lives …

Poor social indicators must make Gujarat rethink its growth model

Shockingly, the state’s infant mortality rate is worse than Jharkhand; it also has the fourth lowest teacher student ratio in the country

Poverty@25, India@70

Poverty remains conditional to one's social status

Living in threat

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Earth lessons for Delhi's kids

A recent exhibition on the Earth had children in the Capital enthralled.

Doordarshan's new tricks show promise

Classroom 2000+ is a promising teaching experiment, which, if extended, could revolutionise science education in Indian villages. Meanwhile, Quest,…

Footprints of the wild

Publishers worldwide need to be goaded to specialise in environmental publications, but the fair was piled high with coffee table glossies on …

Wrong route

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